In this paper, rigorous automated horizontal well test analysis system is presented to obtain vertical and horizontal permeabilities, and skin factor for single phase and primary porosity reservoirs, which system is applicable in both constant and variable rate cases.Although a plenty of papers on transient behaviour of horizontal wells have been published, the following two important aspects in terms of real pressure data analysis have rarely been touched.Firstly, most of the existing methods are based on the assumption that production rate is constant. However, this assumption is rarely acceptable, especially for the reservoirs with low vertical/horizontal permeability ratio(Kv / KH), where production rate usually decreases rapidly. Secondly, the early-time data, which is critical to estimate K v / K H , are often masked by the wellbore storage effect. The developed analysis system overcomes the difficulties mentioned above by using a robust nonlinear regression algorithm. Some examples including real field data are presented in this paper.